Where: Pot Smoker BBQ, 340 Edgefield Road, North Augusta, SC 29841 – map www.thepotsmokerbbq.com This the monthly dinner meeting of the premier Miata Club in the CSRA. Come out and have some eats with fellow[...]

Location: The Outing Club in Aiken, SC. The Outing Club is located, appropriately enough, on Outing Club Rd which is off the 118 By-pass about 2 miles from USC Aiken. The entrance gate (33.595227, -81.762587)[...]

Sorry for the lateness; there wasn’t anyone there to take minutes, so I put it together from memory. Hope I didn’t leave anything out. LG

When: July 2, 2015
Where: Carolina Ale House
Who: John and Pat Clark, Mike and Shirley Dyer, Alan and Jill Johnson, Larry Garner, John and Jackie Nicholls, John and Kathy Ormerod and Rudy and Patty Wilmoth.
Treasurer’s Report: Started at $1531.47
New Business:
*Thanks to Mike and Shirley Dyer for coordinating dinner. The weather was bad enough all drove OTM’s. The eating area was too noisy for a meeting so Mike (as asked by Tom) directed the group to another area for a short meeting. Larry gave a short summery of Zoomin in the Mountains of East Tennessee, that he, Rita and Tom attended in early June. Most impressed with the Police escort thru traffic lights, etc… and the 277 Miata’s attending.
*Dues are due. $10 a year for family; can’t beat it…

The following events have been planned or anticipated:
* Cars & Coffee every first Saturday in West Town in front of Carolina Pottery on Washington Rd. from 8-11 am. Never know what might be there.
*July 18th – Breakfast is planned at Peaches and Such in Moneta; more information on the website.
*July 18th – 2nd Annual Cruise-In on the town square in Edgefield, SC, 4pm to 7pm.
* At this time, no other breakfasts or dinners are on the schedule.
* Kurt Breitinger is going to look into a Brewery Tour at the Terrapin in Athens for sometime in July, so watch your email or check the web-site.
If you have a good idea for a drive or place to eat, please suggest it or work a plan so we can put it on the calendar. It doesn’t have to be fancy.

Does the physical universe depend upon the existence of an immaterial creator?

If 5 Miatas with 9 souls aboard drove from North Augusta to the outskirts of Monetta and had breakfast together in a really small eatery and no one wrote about it on the Club’s web site, did it happen?

Wow, metaphysical questions Brian, can you answer them?

You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Miata Zone!

Two expected, one unexpected and one almost late car joined the lead vehicle on an adventurous journey that included dogs dining on McDonalds in the road, peach picking migrant workers standing on the side of the road, an oncoming car in awe of mingling migrants and Miatas drifting momentarily into our lane of the road and a slow moving farm tractor for the last mile of road or so.

When we got inside the restaurant it was clear that breakfast would be leisurely. The dining area was busy, 5 or so dining and three people leaving had the one server and one cook hopping. Our group was in no hurry, so this really wasn’t an issue. Turns out this was the first day of new ownership and I’m betting they were happy to see the crowd, but I’m hoping they didn’t think we were regulars. And even if they were closer to us, there was nothing special here to keep us coming back. Still worth one trip for sure though.

Meet on or before 8:00 PM at Greg’s Gas Plus, 1295 W Martintown Road (I-20, SC Exit 1) for front end Quick Detailing. Cars will start departing at 8:15 PM sharp for a 40 mile drive around some darkening roads squashing insects on Miata noses. The drive will finish at the Sonic at 1036 Edgefield Road (AKA US 25 north of I-20, Exit 5), North Augusta, there your Event Coordinator will give away awards in various categories, including: Biggest Bug, Most Bugs, etc.